Sample Case Study on Juvenile Prison for Disobedient Kids

January 22nd, 2016

The latest news from Oakland County came with the announcement from the local Circuit Court Judge Lisa Gorcyca regarding the release of three children from the juvenile detention so that the little ones could attend summer camp.

The story began when the Tsimhoni kids of the age 9, 10 and 15 refused to eat lunch with their father. The price that children were obliged to pay for such a decision was more than two weeks spent in incarceration at the Children’s Village detention center. Now the mother of kids, Maya Eibschitz-Tsimhoni, is happy to see them allowed to enjoy summer camp.

According to the court transcript, the core of the problem is in a 5-year divorce fight between Maya Eibschitz-Tsimhoni and her ex-spouse Omer Tsimhoni. On June 24, the Circuit Court Judge Liza Gorcyca found that children refused to have a lunch with their father. She took that as a disobedience of her order, and stated that the little ones were probably “brainwashed”. In accordance with the words of a family court judge, she may extend the children’s detention till the moment they’re 18 in case they didn’t get along with the father.

The order to lock children up has led to multiple public outrages, experts say. A lot of classmates and friends of the Tsimhoni kids have written tons of letters to the court begging to release children and cancel the punishment. However, the judge claimed it was in no way a punishment. According to Gorcyca, her decision was made to place the little ones into the environment, where they wouldn’t be under emotional manipulation of their mother.

The representatives of the Children’s Village informed the court that the kids were stable all the time and improved greatly in counseling sessions. In addition to that, children wanted to get back home, to their mother.

In June, one of the children told the judges that he didn’t want to meet his father since he was violent to them and their mother, who had the custody of kids at the moment. This allegation was immediately denied by Omer Tsimhoni. The judge stated she had never seen any solid evidence of any sort of wrongdoing from the father’s side. She actually pointed out that the father had already moved mountains just to get closer to the little ones. Although Omer Tsimhoni lives and works in Israel, he visits Michigan on a regular basis. His attorney reports that soon he will be filing a motion for a custody change.

It’s important to mention that after the last hearing, Eibschitz-Tsimhoni objected all complaints about her behavior and stated she had always wanted her kids to get along with their father. For now, both mom and dad are allowed supervised visits with the kids at summer camp. Together with their attorneys they’re developing a plan on how to help their children to re-build the lost relationship with the father.